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On this page:
• Performances of compositions
• Selected press for Gao Ping's music (2006-7)
• Links to articles about Gao Ping
2008
• Gao Ping plays and conducts in Professor Gao Weijie’s celebration concert for his 70th birthday in the Beijing Concert Hall, December 2008.
• Gao Ping was the Composer-in-Residence at the 19th Port Fairy Music Festival in Australia in October 2008. He performed a recital which included his piano music as well as his 2nd Sonata for Cello and Piano with cellist Ewen Bramble. He also gave a public talk with the festival’s artistic director Stephen Mcintyre and Australian pianist Anna Goldsworthy.
• Gao Ping’s music (partial) for Rain of the Children, a film by Vincent Ward, won the Qantas Award for the best score.
• Night Alley and Just a Moment received US premiere by pianist Sheng Yuan in the International Piano Festival at the Mannes School of Music, New York, July 2008.
• Bright Light and Cloud Shadows was performed by the New Zealand String Quartet in the New Zealand School of Music in Wellington in Oct. 2008.
• Gao Ping was a guest performer and composer at the Music08 in Cincinnati, June 2008. He performed a recital which included piano music by himself, Jack Body and William Bocolm. He teamed up with Frederic Rzewski in a performance in his The Mountain for 2 pianos. He also played his father Gao Weijie’s The Way for violin and piano with Italian violinist Duccio Ceccanti. He gave a composition master-class.
• Gao Ping performed in the Kita-Kyushu Chamber Music Festival in Japan, June 2008. He played a duo recital with violinist Rieko Suzuki which included Mozart, Ravel, Takemitsu, Poulenc, Gao Ping and Gao Weijie. He also took the piano part of a performance of Shostakovich’s Piano Quintet in the festival’s final concert.
• Gao Ping performed in two charity concerts for the victims of the Sichuan Earthquake in 2008. The first took place in Tokyo in June, with violinist Rieko Suzuki among other musicians. The second concert took place in the Te Papa Museum in Wellington in August.
• The Platform Arts Festival in Christchurch presented “The Storyteller and Other Musical Tales”, a concert of Gao Ping’s chamber music, in May, 2008. The program included “The Story Teller”, a half-hour long sextet, as well as several piano works by Gao Ping.
• Piano Concerto premiered in the Made in NZ concert in the Wellington Town Hall in May 2008. The New Zealand Symphony Orchestra was conducted by Kenneth Young, with the composer as piano soloist. Read the NZ Listener's review here.
• Concert tour of Japan, including an appearance at the Kita-Kyushu Chamber Music Festival, a concert in Tokyo to raise relief funds for the Sichuan Earthquake. June 2008.
• Concerts at Yokohama Museum with violinist Rieko Suzuki. April 2008
• Concert with Gao Ping's music including sextet The Story Teller, and vocalizing piano suite Concealed Kisses in the Great Hall, Christchurch, in the Platform Arts Festival.
• Concert in the Great Hall featuring Gao Ping and Canterbury music students, playing Gao Ping's music including a first performance of Questioning the Mountains for violin and piano. Also performed was Shostakovich's Piano Quintet.
• Charity concert in Te Papa National Musuem in Wellington, raising funds for the rebuilding of Mianyang College for Arts, which was damaged by the Sichuan earthquake.
• Distant Voices for piano won First Prize in the 4th Chinese Piano Music Competition in Hong Kong, January 2008.
2007
•
Jannes Rattya,
Finish accordionist performed Ping’s “Dance Fury-homage to
Astor Piazzolla” (arr. Rattya) in Shomrei Torah Temple in Santa
Rosa, USA, Musicum, Great Hall in Salzburg, Wien Modern festival, Hong
Kong Academy for Performing Arts, Sakaimoto, Matsue, Japan, 2007.
•
Night
Alley for solo piano, commissioned by the 4th China International
Piano Competition, was performed by all 12 semi-finalists during the competition
in October 2007. The competition was held in the coastal city of Xiamen.
GP was the guest of honor, presenting a lecture on the new piece.
• Bright Light and Cloud Shadows for string quartet was played by the New Zealand String Quartet on its tour of the USA in November 2007.
• Dance Fury-homage to Astor Piazzolla was recorded by New Zealand pianist Michael Houstoun on a CD released by Rattle Records in December 2007.
• Three concerts with violinist Rieko Suzuki in Tokyo, featuring music by Messiaen, Ravel, Poulenc, Brahms, Chick Corea, and Gao Ping, collaborating with three Japanese visual artists.
• Gao Ping was invited by Mrs. Irino to give a talk on his recent music at the JML.
• Gao Ping played his own works and Jack Body’s Sarajevo in a concert featuring New Zealand and Sichuan composers at the Sichuan Conservatory of Music, December 2007.
• Gao Ping gave a lecture-recital in the Mian-Yang School of Arts, Sichuan, China. He was appointed as a guest lecturer in the school.
• Duo concert with Rieko Suzuki featuring works by Mozart, Brahms, Ravel, Gao Ping, and Qu Xiao-song, at the Capital Normal University in Beijing, November 2007.
• The Mountain for two pianists was performed by Frederic Rzewski and Ursula Oppens at the Berkeley Edge Fest, June 2007.
• Provided parts of the soundtrack for Vincent Ward’s new feature film “Rain of the Children”, October 2007.
• Provided improvised piano music for a New Zealand silent film show in the Christchurch International Arts Festival, July 2007.
• Performed in two concerts with piano ensemble works, including Darius Milhaud’s rarely-heard suite for 4 pianos “Paris”, in the Auckland International Piano Festival, June 2007.
• During a week as artist-in-residence at the Queensland Conservatorium in Brisbane in March 2007, GP played a piano recital with works by Gao Wei-jie, Gao Ping, Shostakovich and Poulenc, in the Kawai Piano Recital Series, and directed a concert of improvised music based on Chinese revolutionary songs with a student ensemble.
• Solo recital with works by Gao Wei-jie, Poulenc, Ross Carey, and Gao Ping in the Lunchtime Series at the Great hall, the Arts Centre, Christchurch, 9 March 2007.
• Conducted two premiere performances of a scene from Fatal Desire (with Contemporary Music Ensemble Korea), a chamber opera by Shen Na Lin during the Asia Pacific Music Festival (ACL), February 2007.
• Premiered New Zealand composer Ross Carey’s Great Wall, a piano cycle for vocalizing pianist, at the Asia Pacific Music Festival (ACL), February 2007.
• Played the piano solo in the premiere performances of Chinese composer Qu Xiao-song’s Cursive for piano, and three percussionists in Shanghai, November 2006.
• Participated as a keyboardist in the first China performance of John Zorn’s Cobra in D-22, Beijing, December 2006.
Performances of compositions:
•
Piano Concerto premiered in the Made
in NZ concert in the Wellington Town Hall in May 2008. The New
Zealand Symphony Orchestra was conducted by Kenneth Young
• Premiere performances of Gao Ping's new string quartet, Bright Light and Cloud Shadows by the New Zealand String Quartet in the Adam International Chamber Music Festival in Nelson in January 2007 and at the Asia Pacific Music Festival (ACL), in February 2007
• The Mountain for two pianos, performance at the Banff Centre for Music in Canada, January 2007
• Contemplating Tango for violin and piano, by Isin Cakmakcioglu and Danae Killian in a Melbourne Composer's League concert in Melbourne, Australia, October 2006
• Distant Voices for piano, performance at Carnegie Hall in NYC by pianist Wen Lei, December 2006
• Distant Voices for piano, performance in the International Piano Institute and Festival in Mannes School of Music, NYC, by pianist Sheng Yuan, July 2006
Selected press
for Gao Ping’s music (2006-07):
NZ Listener
(read full review here)
• “The Mountain, a superb and often sweepingly beautiful work for two pianos composed in 2004 by Gao Ping.”
San
Francisco Chronicle
• "Bright Light and Cloud Shadows gives a more delicate sonic impression...Gao creates string sonorities from an imagined palette of pastels painting in gently evolving textures and with tender long-breathed brush strokes.”
Washington
Post
• "Dance Fury by Gao Ping...virtuosic and original, the crowd ate it up.”
Cincinnati
Enquirer
• "[Gao] Ping’s The Mountain for two pianos was by far the more interesting. It contains a powerful central section, a simultaneous passacaglia and fugue.”
San
Francisco Classical Voice
• "Music which wants to be heard with ears of a child, full of wonder and amazement…. deep and vulnerable. It is becoming increasingly clear that he is possibly the archetype of the contemporary composer.”
Tokafi,
Germany
• "The man with 1001 tone colors. Here is tasteful and sincere music built to last.”
New
Zealand Listener
• "I strongly recommend this disc [Gao Ping’s "Chamber Music" on the NAXOS label] to those who like to get more familiar with contemporary music but are still a little hesitant.”
Klassikmagazin,
Germany
• "No-one ends a piece with such diaphanous delicacy as Gao.”
Ian
Dando, CANZONA (the yearbook of the Composers
Association of New Zealand)
• "Gao Ping plays his piece for piano and voice, Concealed Kisses, with dazzling virtuosity and sparkling wit.”
New
Zealand Geographic, January 2007
Links to articles about Gao Ping
•
http://www.tokafi.com/15questions/15-question-to-gao-ping
•
www.griffith.edu.au/school/qcgu/about/industry_and_community/resources/doc/gao-ping.doc